78R15746 JD-F


By:  Wentworth                                                    S.B. No. 1581

Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1581:                                   

By:  Gattis                                                   C.S.S.B. No. 1581



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to excepting an audit working paper of a county auditor or 
a municipal auditor from required disclosure under the public 
information law.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 552.116(a), Government Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(a)  An audit working paper of an audit of the state auditor 
or the auditor of a state agency, an [or] institution of higher 
education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, a county, 
or a municipality is excepted from the requirements of Section 
552.021.  If information in an audit working paper is also 
maintained in another record, that other record is not excepted 
from the requirements of Section 552.021 by this section.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to 
audit working papers created before, on, or after the effective 
date of this Act.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.